Prosecutor: Pennsylvania woman says neighbor tried to steal her fetus

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This is a copy photo provided by Thomas Wilk showing him with his girlfriend, Peggy Jo Conner, at his mother’s home in August 2004 in Ford City, Pa. Conner is accused of attacking her pregnant neighbor, Valerie Oskin, in an attempt to remove the fetus.

Oskin was rescued after a teenager spotted the women, and the baby boy was delivered at a hospital in healthy condition, official said. Oskin has head injuries but has been improving, officials said.

Conner, 38, is jailed without bail on charges of attempted homicide, aggravated assault and aggravated assault of an unborn child.

She is accused of hitting Oskin with a baseball bat Wednesday, then driving her about 15 miles to a secluded, wooded area about 50 miles northeast of Pittsburgh and cutting Oskin’s abdomen along a previous Caesarean scar.

Prosecutors said Oskin would have died if Adam Silvis, 17, hadn’t come across the two women while riding his all-terrain vehicle. He alerted his father, who called police.

Doctors at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh performed an emergency Caesarean on Wednesday to deliver the baby.